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Prostitution has always fulfilled basic human needs. Banning it has never been about helping people, always about dominating them and thereby increasing the pow
by excalibur 6y ago
Prostitution has always fulfilled basic human needs. Banning it has never been about helping people, always about dominating them and thereby increasing the power of the church or state. The fact that these bans remain in place in our "enlightened" modern societies is shameful.
- treeman79 6y agoBans were part of a health code. It was one of the few ways to control diseases. Today some/many consider it immoral to walk around with face uncovered. Imagine hundreds to thousands of years ago when soap was a novel concept. Social distancing and strict rules were about as much as a society could do. Definitely some mixing of religion and sanitary practices.
- zozbot234 6y agoUnregulated prostitution always turns into a safe haven for violent and coercive human trafficking. And we don't know what kind of regulation would effectively prevent this, but what examples exist of legalized prostitution at the medium-to-large scale are far from encouraging. Banning prostitution outright might not be the best possible policy, but it's far from the worst.
- airhead969 6y agoViolence and human trafficking exist when their is puritanical prohibition, not independent contractors without pimps. Prohibition never works and always creates more problems that it erroneously attempts to in "solving" moral panics getting in other people's business.